Well, that was less than special.
The short version, as I see it, is that The Hawks' top six were nowhere as good as they needed to be. Aside from a shift here and there they were overrun by their Detroit counterparts. Yes, Kane set up a dandy for Panarin, but those two were also on the ice for all four goals against, with Kane being directly responsible for two of those GA. Panik and Anisimov were, for the most part, nowhere to be seen.
The Hawks D struggled somewhat; Kempny alternated between good play/bad play with alarming regularity, while Campbell and van Riemsdyk were observed standing still far too often, particularly when the puck was sailing into The Hawks' net.
On top of that, Crawford kinda waved at a couple of the goals against although, to be fair, The Wings' goal scorers could not have been in more primo shooting positions on three of their tallies.
I suppose someone might point to Hjalmarsson & Oduya being scratched in favour of the Czech Wrecks, Kempny & Rozsival, but those two were hardly the problem.
Anyway, a disappointing result from a lackluster effort that I don't need to comment on any more than this. Gotta be better than this on Sunday.
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